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2016 Mokum Oracle Virtualization Buyer’s Guide Published June 29th 2016

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Copyright © 2020 Mokum Solutions, Inc. All rights reserved. Distribution of this Whitepaper or derivative of the work in any form is prohibited unless prior permission is obtained from the Copyright holder. About Mokum Solutions, Inc. Headquartered in San Francisco, California, Mokum Solutions, Inc. is a leading provider of services for Oracle Virtualization. All of Mokum’s customers are Oracle Virtualization success stories that have saved millions in Oracle licensing and hardware costs. Through our cloud computing and Oracle background, we’ve devised a best practices approach to develop, implement and support innovative, world-class Oracle private cloud solutions. About the Author The author of the Oracle Cloud Cookbook is none other than the owner of Mokum Solutions, Inc., Roddy Rodstein. Roddy is one of the most respected Oracle Cloud experts, having designed and managed many of the world’s largest and most complex Oracle private clouds. Before re-establishing Mokum in San Francisco in March 2011, Roddy spent three years at Oracle on the Linux and Virtualization team designing and supporting Oracle's largest and most complex customer environments. Before Oracle, Roddy spent six years at Citrix, designing and supporting Citrix's largest and most complex application delivery solutions and work from home initiatives. With Mr. Rodstein’s rich background and knowledge, there can be no better resource for revealing the Oracle Cloud recipe. Audience Oracle customers looking to gain total control of their Oracle licensing costs.

2016 Mokum Oracle Virtualization Buyer’s Guide Mokum is pleased to announce the release of its 2016 Oracle Virtualization Buyer’s Guide that reviews Oracle’s virtualization portfolio against a list of features that matters the most to Oracle customers. This Buyer’s Guide provides the critical information that all Oracle customers need when selecting an Oracle virtualization solution. The 2016 Mokum Oracle Virtualization Buyer’s Guide reviews Oracle’s virtualization portfolio against the following features: Acquisition Costs Oracle License Management Oracle Database Virtualization Oracle Application Virtualization General Purpose Virtualization Virtualization Functionally

The Mokum Oracle virtualization buyer’s guide will review the following Oracle virtualization solutions: Oracle VM for x86 Software Private Cloud Appliance Oracle Exadata Oracle Exalogic Oracle Exalytics Oracle Database Appliance

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Table of Contents Table of Contents Oracle Virtualization Introduction Oracle VM for x86 Overview Key Features and Specifications Oracle and NonOracle Support Matrix Oracle VM for x86 Release 3.4 Feature Matrix

Acquisition and Maintenance Costs The Competition

Private Cloud Appliance Key Features and Specifications Oracle and NonOracle Support Matrix The Private Cloud Appliance Virtualization Feature Matrix


Oracle Exadata Key Features and Specifications Oracle and NonOracle Support Matrix Exadata Virtual Deployment Feature Matrix.


Oracle Exalogic Key Features and Specifications Oracle and NonOracle Support Matrix Exalogic Virtual Configuration Feature Matrix.


Exalytics Key Features and Specifications Oracle and NonOracle Support Matrix Exalytics X54 Virtualization Feature Matrix Exalytics T58 Virtualization Feature Matrix


Oracle Database Appliance Key Features and Specifications Oracle and NonOracle Support Matrix Oracle Database Appliance X52 Virtualization Feature Matrix




Oracle Virtualization Introduction In response to the increased number of cores in Intel processors, and the resulting dramatic cost increase to Oracle software licensing, Oracle has added virtualization using Oracle VM for x86 software with license management, referred to as trusted partitions to select Oracle Engineered Systems. Trusted Partitions allow Oracle software to be licensed at the virtual machine level instead of the physical processor core level. Without Trusted Partitions Oracle software must be licensed at the physical server’s or cluster’s processor core level, which is referred to as soft partitions. The increased number of cores in Intel processors can easily increase Oracle software licensing costs by a factor of 7, 8 or more figures. Note: Oracle does not test, certify, or support Oracle software on NonOracle x86 virtualization platforms. With NonOracle x86 virtualization solutions, the only Oracle licensing option is soft partitioning. For example, the only licensing option with Oracle on VMware is soft partitions which requires all of the VMware server’s or cluster’s physical processor cores to be licensed. Oracle Engineered Systems are preassembled compute, network and storage solutions with targeted functionality designed for specific Oracle workloads that address the buildversusbuy decision. For example, the Engineered Systems portfolio has an individual virtualization product for Oracle Database (Exadata), Oracle Applications and Middleware (Exalogic), Oracle Business Intelligence (BI) (Exalytics), and for general purpose virtualization (Private Cloud Appliance (PCA)), and the entry level Oracle Database Appliance (ODA). Engineered Systems are sold separately without the Oracle Database, Applications, Middleware, and Business Intelligence licenses. Oracle software licensing is calculated using the total number of an Engineered System’s physical server’s processor cores. To align with customer requirements Engineered Systems are sold in entry level (Oracle Database Appliance (ODA)), 1/8, 1/4, 1/2 and full rack configurations, with CapacityOnDemand (CoD) licensing, and Trusted Partitions to further optimize Oracle software licensing costs. CapacityOnDemand (CoD) is an Oracle licensing feature for select Engineered Systems that describes the minimum number of enabled processor cores, and the ability to enable processor cores as you grow. Capacityondemand (CoD) allows compute nodes to be installed with a subset of its processor cores turned off so that the Oracle software license costs could be reduced. CapacityOnDemand with Trusted Partitions allow customers to rightsize their Oracle software licensing with Engineered Systems.



The next list shows the CapacityOnDemand details for Exadata, Exalogic, Exalytics, Oracle Database Appliance, and the Private Cloud Appliance. For Exadata X62 systems a minimum of 14 processor cores must be enabled per compute node.

For Exadata X62 Eighth Rack the minimum is 8 processor cores per compute node.

For Exadata X68 a minimum of 56 processor cores must be enabled per compute node.

For Exalogic X52 a minimum of 14 processor cores must be enabled per compute node.

For Exalytics X54 a minimum of 8 processor cores must be enabled per compute node.

For Oracle Database Appliance Virtualized Platform X52 Capacityondemand licensing is established by assigning specific processor cores to the virtual machine.

The Oracle Private Cloud Appliance, Oracle Exalytics T58, and Oracle VM for x86 software do not have CapacityOnDemand.

Oracle’s virtualization portfolio also includes a software only solutions that falls into the build your own option using Oracle VM for x86 software. With Oracle VM for x86 software you can build your own high performance Oracle virtualization solution using the same compute, network and storage as your VMware systems managed by Oracle VM Manager, Oracle Enterprise Manager, or by OpenStack. Oracle software running on Oracle VM for x86 can be licensed at the virtual machine level as well as the physical processor level. With Oracle VM licensing at the virtual machine level is referred to as hard partitions, and at the physical processor level as soft partitions. For virtual machines to participate under hard partitions licensing they must have their virtual CPUs (vCPUs) pinned to physical CPUs (pCPUs) in the virtual machine’s configuration file. The difference between hard partitions and Trusted Partitions is that hard partitions do not allow Live Migration to move running virtual machines between Oracle VM servers. Trusted Partitions allow Live Migration between Oracle VM servers as long as the virtual machine is managed via Enterprise Manager. Live migration of vCPU pinned virtual machines is not permitted under the terms of Oracle’s hard partitioning license. Note: Enterprise Manager is Oracle’s system management solution for its software and hardware. Oracle’s virtualization sales approach is quite unique with each product being sold by a different sales team to different application owners. For example, Exadata is sold by the technology and hardware sales teams to database application owners. Exalogic is sold by the middleware, and hardware sales teams to Oracle middleware, and application owners. Exalytics is sold by business intelligence and hardware sales teams to Oracle BI application owners. The Private Cloud Appliance is sold by the hardware sales team to infrastructure owners. The Oracle



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Database Appliance is sold by resellers. Oracle VM for x86 software is sold by the Linux Oracle Global Business Unit to infrastructure owners. Oracle’s sales approach allows each sales team to sell an individual virtualization solution to discrete business units and budgets. Oracle approach to virtualization sales is in stark contrast to the virtualization, converged and hyperconverged vendors that sell software and preassembled compute, network, storage solutions to infrastructure owners. Oracle’s sales approach changes how Oracle customers buy and support Oracle hardware and software products. Virtualization has traditionally been sold to infrastructure business units. Most infrastructure business units buy and maintain a standard compute, network, storage, virtualization, and operating systems stack, and in turn deliver infrastructure services to their application owners. Oracle’s virtualization sales approach introduces an entirely new Oracle/Sun compute, network, storage, virtualization, and operating system stack into the data center for each application owner that require unique technical skills, and integration into existing IT Policies, Standards, and Procedures. With Oracle Engineered Systems each application owner introduces a unique Engineered System into the data center. Each Engineered System requires unique technical skills, and integration into existing IT Policies, Standards, and Procedures. Conversely Oracle VM for x86 software provides standardization across Oracle applications using a customer's existing the hardware and infrastructure stack, albeit with Oracle VM for x86 software. Oracle VM for x86 also requires unique technical skills, Oracle knowhow, and integration into existing IT Policies, Standards, and Procedures. The difference between Engineered Systems and Oracle VM for x86 is that each Engineered System introduces an entirely new Oracle/Sun compute, network, storage, virtualization, and operating system stack, and Oracle VM for x86 deployments only introduce new virtualization software. Along with Oracle unique sales approach is an equally unique virtualization feature matrix. Oracle’s unique virtualization feature matrix is the result of all of the virtualized Engineered Systems, except the Private Cloud Appliance, being initially designed for only physical deployments, along with Oracle’s “Oracle on Oracle” sales strategy. Virtualization in Engineered Systems was added for Trusted Partition in response to the increased number of cores in Intel processors, and the resulting dramatic cost increase to Oracle software licensing. Virtualized Engineered Systems, except the Private Cloud Appliance, do not include the basic virtualization and management features one expects from a contemporary Converged Infrastructure offering. In fact, virtualized Engineered Systems, except the Private Cloud Appliance, do not even share the basic virtualization and management features from Oracle VM for x86, and the Private Cloud Appliance. The “Oracle on Oracle” sales strategy gives a separate virtualization product for each Oracle sales team. Each product has unique features and functionality from



products that are sold separately across Oracle’s hardware, storage, application, and management stack. For example, Oracle virtualization relies on, but does not include Oracle software, hardware and storage products for availability, fault tolerance, backup and recovery, data replication, disaster recovery, and centralized management. Each product and feature is sold separately by its respected sales team. This strategy is by design and gives each Oracle sales team a unique virtualization product that is sold to a unique/different business unit, and budget. Engineered Systems are designed, marketed, and sold with the intention not to compete against each other. Oracle intends to sell customers a unique Engineered System for each Oracle workload, i.e. Exadata for databases, Exalogic for middleware and applications, Exalytics for business intelligence, Private Cloud Appliances as a replacement for VMware systems, and the entry level Oracle Database Appliances for small Oracle shops that can not afford Exadata, Exalogic, and Exalytics. Oracle’s approach is in stark contrast to the virtualization, converged and hyperconverged vendors that sell a single solution for business applications, and VDI, with integrated management, availability, fault tolerance, backup and recovery, data replication, and disaster recovery functionally. The next image shows how each Oracle virtualization product is aligned with its Oracle workloads, operating systems, hardware, and management solutions.



The next table expands on the above image with a checklist of each virtualization product’s alignment with its workloads, operating systems, and hardware option.

Product Oracle Database

Oracle Middleware Applications

Oracle Business

Intelligence

NonOracle Workloads

Oracle/Sun Hardware & Hypervisor

Non Oracle/Sun Hardware Support

Oracle Linux NonOracle Operating System Support

Exadata

Exalogic

Exalytics



Private Cloud

Appliance

Oracle Database Appliance

Oracle VM for x86 Software

Understanding Oracle’s virtualization portfolio, sales approach, and how to use Capacity on Demand, Trusted Partitions, and hard and soft partitions can help reduce Oracle licensing, and hardware costs by hundreds of thousands, if not millions of dollars. Next, we will review each product in Oracle’s x86 virtualization portfolio against the following features: Acquisition Costs Oracle License Management Oracle Database Virtualization Oracle Application Virtualization General Purpose Virtualization Virtualization Functionally



Oracle VM for x86 Overview At Oracle OpenWorld 2007, Oracle announced its entry into the x86 server virtualization market with the first release of Oracle VM for x86. Oracle marketed Oracle VM for x86: “Faster, Cheaper and Scalable Server Virtualization; Fully Supported for Deploying Oracle and Linux Oracle today announced Oracle® VM, server virtualization software which supports both Oracle and nonOracle applications. Oracle VM offers scalable, lowcost server virtualization that is up to three times more efficient than existing products from other vendors. Key Oracle products including Oracle Database, Oracle Fusion Middleware and Oracle Applications are certified with Oracle VM.” Today Oracle markets Oracle VM for x86 as a “Complete server virtualization and management solution with zero license cost”. Oracle VM for x86 is Oracle's leading edge virtualization software that was designed to make Oracle databases, middleware and applications easier to deploy, support, and license, on commodity x86 hardware. With Oracle VM for x86 software you can build your own high performance Oracle virtualization solution using the same compute, network and storage as your VMware systems managed by Oracle VM Manager, Enterprise Manager, or by OpenStack. Oracle software running on Oracle VM for x86 can be licensed at the virtual machine level as well as the physical processor level. Licensing is at the virtual machine level is referred to as hard partitions, and at the physical processor level as soft partitions. Oracle offers commercial support for Oracle VM for x86, and OpenStack on thirdparty hardware, bundled with Sun hardware, Exadata, Exalogic, Exalytics, the Oracle Database Appliance, and the Private Cloud Appliance. Note: Oracle VM for x86 is the default virtualization platform used for Exadata, Exalogic, Exalytics, the Oracle Database Appliance, and the Private Cloud Appliance. Oracle VM for x86 consists of a server component, and a management component. The server component is based on the open source Xen.org hypervisor, named Oracle VM server. The Xen hypervisor is a type 1 hypervisor that installs directly on hardware. Oracle makes subtle changes to the original Xen.org code that create a unique Xen distribution, which Oracle maintains and redistributes as Oracle VM server. Oracle VM server is designed to support the most demanding high I/O workloads like Oracle Databases.



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The default management component is a traditional Oracle WebLogic application, named Oracle VM Manager. Oracle VM Manager consists of two J2EE applications using a MySQL backend, with an Oracle Application Development Framework (ADF) administrative web portal. Oracle VM Manager can be installed on Oracle Linux and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5U5+, and 6+ x86_64. Oracle VM for x86 support includes a limiteduse license for the MySQL Database and WebLogic, as long as they are “only” used for Oracle VM Manager. Oracle VM uses the concept of a "server pool" to group together and centrally manage one or more server pools. If more than one location exists, Oracle VM server pools may be dispersed to different locations managed by a local, or a centralized Oracle VM Manager instance. Oracle VM server pools can also be managed via Enterprise Manager with a plugin named the Oracle VM Infrastructure Cloud. Oracle VM servers pools can be added to Enterprise Manager by registering Oracle VM Manager. The Oracle VM Infrastructure Cloud provides centralized management, monitoring, alerting for all objects managed by Oracle VM Manager. The Oracle VM Infrastructure Cloud also includes a self service portal to deliver Oracle VM for x86 virtual machine templates, and assemblies in a Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) delivery format. A right to use license for the Oracle VM Infrastructure Cloud is bundled with Oracle VM for x86 support. The next table contrasts the highlevel features from Oracle VM Manager, and the Enterprise Manager Oracle VM Infrastructure Cloud.

Capabilities Oracle VM Manager Enterprise Manager

Centralized Oracle VM Server Pool Lifecycle Management (Oracle VM Servers, Server Pools, Networks, Storage, Virtual Machines, Templates, & Assemblies)

Self Service Provisioning Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) virtual machine template provisioning

Oracle Application Lifecycle Management Patching & Provisioning Monitoring, Alerting, and Notifications

Help Desk Ticketing

Oracle VM with OpenStack Oracle VM servers managed by OpenStack have an entirely different features than Oracle VM servers managed by Oracle VM Manager or Enterprise Manager.



For example, Oracle’s virtualization portfolio leverages Oracle VM for x86 for virtualization, and relies on a variety of additional Engineered Systems, Oracle software, hardware and storage products for network and storage virtualization, availability, fault tolerance, backup and recovery, data replication, and disaster recovery. Each feature is sold separately by its respected Oracle sales team. Oracle VM servers managed by OpenStack have the entire OpenStack feature set that includes software defined networking (SDN), software defined storage (SDS) including object, block, file, and scaleout storage, high availability, fault tolerance, a self service portal with Infrastructure as a Service delivery, and much more... OpenStack support is included as part of Oracle Premier Support for Oracle Linux, Oracle VM, and Systems. Note: OpenStack support most of the contemporary hypervisors such as VMware, HyperV, Oracle VM, Xen, KVM, and many more. One of the advantages of using OpenStack is the number of storage and compute options, ranging from traditional SAN/NAS block, and file storage, to hyperconverged scaleout storage. For example, along with SAN, or NAS storage, OpenStack Oracle VM compute nodes can be deployed as hyperconverged compute and storage servers with Ceph. Ceph can aggregate, stripe, and replicate local storage across multiple servers. Ceph is a unified, distributed, replicated open source storage solution that is OpenStack integrated. Oracle VM servers managed by Oracle software are limited to traditional local nonclustered storage, SAN/NAS block, and file storage without hyperconverged capabilities. Other advantages of using OpenStack with Oracle VM is software defined networking (SDN), also referred to as network virtualization with Open vSwitch. Open vSwitch has been included in Oracle VM server for quite a long time, but it was never exposed due to the 2012 Xsigo acquisition. The Xsigo software defined network and storage technologies have gone through many changes at Oracle. The Xsigo technologies found a home in the Oracle Private Cloud Appliance (PCA). Oracle VM with OpenStack along with the Oracle Private Cloud Appliance are the only two products in Oracle’s virtualization portfolio with software defined network and storage.

Key Features and Specifications The following two tables show the Oracle, NonOracle, and virtualization feature matrices.

Oracle and NonOracle Support Matrix The next table shows Oracle VM for x86’s Oracle and NonOracle workload, hardware and operating system support matrix.




Oracle Middleware & Applications

Oracle Business

Intelligence

NonOracle Workloads

Oracle/Sun Hardware

[aNon Oracle/Sun Hardware Support

Oracle Linux [b]NonOracle Operating System Support


[a]Oracle VM for x86 NonOracle/Sun Hardware Support Details: Hardware Certification List for Oracle Linux and Oracle VM

Oracle VM for x86 Release 3.4 Feature Matrix

Oracle Software Product Certification and Support

Oracle Product Certification and Support

Oracle Software License Management

Hard Partitions

Soft Partitions

Trusted Partitions

CapacityOnDemand

Key Features

Supported Guest Operating Systems

Oracle Linux, Red Hat Enterprise linux, CentOS, Windows, and

Solaris x86[b]

Centralized Management

Application Management Available with Enterprise Manager

Monitoring, Alerts and Notifications Available with the Enterprise Manager and OpenStack

RBAC / ADIntegration Available with Enterprise Manager and OpenStack

CrossVendor Management Available with OpenStack

Browser Based Management

Self Service Portal Available with Enterprise Manager and OpenStack

Chargeback Available with Enterprise Manager and OpenStack

Hypervisors Patching

Virtual Machine Patching



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Live VM Migration

Automated Live Migration

Power Management

Integrated HA (Restart VM) Available with clustered Oracle VM Server Pools

VM Fault Tolerance

Storage Migration Only with local storage (experimental)

Live VM Snapshots Available with OCFS2 storage

Backup Integration API

Integrated Backup

VM Templates

Replication and Site Failover Available with ROAD for Oracle VM and Oracle Site Guard with Oracle

Enterprise Manager

Virtual disk thin provisioning Available with OCFS2 storage

Memory Dedupe

Memory Oversubscribe

CPU Oversubscribe

I/O PassThrough (SRIOV) Available with OpenStack, Exadata and Exalogic

Centralized Backup

Disaster Recovery Available with ROAD for Oracle VM and Oracle Site Guard with Oracle

Enterprise Manager

Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI)

Software Defined Storage (SDS) Available with OpenStack

Software Defined Network (SDN) Available with OpenStack

Logical Volume Manager Available with OpenStack

Virtual Switches Available with OpenStack

V2V Available with OVF files

P2V

Oracle VM Server Capabilities

Max CPUs Host 288 (Tested) 384 (Designed)



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Max vCPUs Host 4096

Max Memory Host 6 TB

SAN Multipath

EMC PowerPath

Raw Device Mapping

Boot From SAN

Boot from USB

Virtual Disk Format Raw Image Files (*.img files)

NIC Teaming

VLANs

PLANs

Private Networks (Xen Bridges)

Jumbo Frames

Virtual Machine Capabilities

Max vCPUs PVM: 256 PVHVM: 128[c]

Max Memory PVM: 500,000 MB [c] PVHVM: 2,000,000 MB [c]

Max vDisk Size OCFS2: 64 TB NFS: 10 TB

Serial Ports

USB Support

Hot Add/Plug

Graphic Acceleration

Dynamic / OverCommit

Memory Page Sharing

Large Pages

OVF Support

Scripting API

[b] Supported Guest Operating Systems: Oracle Linux Release 7.x Oracle Linux Release 6.x Oracle Linux Release 5.x Oracle Linux Release 4.x Oracle Solaris 11 Oracle Solaris 10



Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.x Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.x Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.x Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4.x CentOS 6.x CentOS 5.x CentOS 4.x SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11.x Microsoft Windows Server 2012 R2 Microsoft Windows Server 2012 Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 Microsoft Windows Server 2008 SP2 Microsoft Windows Server 2003 R2 SP2 Microsoft Windows 8.1 Microsoft Windows 8 Microsoft Windows 7 SP1 Microsoft Windows Vista SP2 [c] Oracle VM supports two unique virtualization modes, paravirtualization mode (PVM mode) and hardware virtualization mode (HVM & PVHVM). Windows and Solaris x86 only support HVM and PVHVM modes, Linux supports PVM/HVM and PVHVM. Oracle VM Servers can support both PVM mode and HVM/PVHVM mode simultaneously on a single x86_64 server that has either Intel or AMD virtualization technologies.

Acquisition and Maintenance Costs Oracle VM for x86 does not require the purchase of any licenses. Oracle offers commercial support for Oracle VM for x86. Oracle VM for x86 support is included in Oracle Premier Support for Systems. Oracle also offers commercial support for Oracle VM for x86, and OpenStack on thirdparty hardware, bundled with Sun hardware, Exadata, Exalogic, Exalytics, the Oracle Database Appliance, and the Private Cloud Appliance. Support for Oracle VM for x86 on thirdparty hardware is sold in two packages: 1. Oracle VM Premier Limited support for x86_64 servers with up to two sockets costs $599.00 per server, per year.

2. Oracle VM Premier support for x86_64 servers with more than two sockets costs $1,199.00 per server, per year.

Resource: https://shop.oracle.com/pls/ostore/f?p=DSTORE:2:::NO:RIR,RP,2:PROD_HIER_ID:4510278280861805728469 Support for Oracle VM for x86 on Oracle/Sun x86 hardware is bundled with Premier Support for Systems. Premier Support for Systems costs 12% of the net Sun system purchase price and includes comprehensive support for the system



hardware and firmware, as well as operating system support for Oracle Solaris, Oracle Linux, and Oracle VM. Along with hardware and firmware support, Premier Support for Systems includes operating system support for one or more virtual instances Oracle Linux, and Solaris x86 on Oracle VM for x86. Oracle VM for x86 servers, pools, and resources can be managed by Oracle VM Manager, and Enterprise Manager, or OpenStack. A right to use licensing is bundled with Oracle VM support for Oracle VM Manager and Enterprise Manager. Oracle OpenStack for Oracle Linux support is included as part of Oracle Linux Premier Support, Oracle VM Premier Support, and Oracle Premier Support for Systems. Support for Oracle Linux, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, CentOS, Solaris x86, and Windows virtual machine operating systems on Oracle VM for x86 must be purchased separately. Note: Oracle VM for x86 is sold by the Oracle Linux Global Business Unit, and partners.

The Competition Oracle does not test, certify, or support Oracle software on NonOracle x86 virtualization platforms. That makes Oracle VM for x86 the only certified x86 virtualization solution for Oracle software. The only competition to Oracle VM for x86 is Oracle Engineered Systems. Within Oracle’s virtualization portfolio Oracle VM for x86 has the broadest Oracle software support, the most comprehensive features, and is the only solution with 3rd party (Cisco, HP, Dell, EMC, NetApp, etc..) hardware, storage, and operating system support. With Oracle VM for x86 you can build your own high performance virtualization solution that supports not only Oracle database workloads, but also middleware, application, and business intelligence using the same compute, network and storage as your VMware systems. Oracle software running on Oracle VM for x86 can be licensed at the virtual machine level as well as the physical processor level. Each Engineered System introduces a unique Oracle/Sun compute, network, storage, virtualization, operating system, and management stack into the data center. Each Engineered System requires unique technical skills, and integration into existing IT Policies, Standards, and Procedures. Conversely Oracle VM for x86 software provides standardization across the Oracle applications stack using existing hardware and infrastructure. Oracle VM for x86 also requires unique technical skills, Oracle knowhow, and integration into existing IT Policies, Standards, and Procedures. The difference between Engineered Systems and Oracle VM for x86 is that each Engineered System introduces an entirely new Oracle/Sun compute, network, storage, virtualization, operating system, and



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management stack, and Oracle VM for x86 software deployments only introduce new virtualization software. Oracle VM for x86’s broad Oracle software support, features, and 3rd party (Cisco, HP, Dell, EMC, NetApp, etc..) hardware, storage, and operating system support, and cost (no licensing fees) makes Oracle VM for x86 a cost effective, high performance alternative to Engineered Systems.



Private Cloud Appliance On June 24, 2014, Oracle announced the latest addition to its Engineered System portfolio, the Virtual Compute Appliance (VCA). In 2015 the Virtual Compute Appliance was rebranded as the Private Cloud Appliance (PCA). Oracle markets the Private Cloud Appliance as: “A Turnkey Converged Infrastructure Solution for Private Clouds and Virtually Any Application” Oracle positions the Private Cloud Appliance against market leading converged infrastructure solutions that integrate the bestinclass compute, network, and storage technologies. The market leading converged infrastructure solutions offer the bestinclass Cisco compute and network components, VMware software, and EMC, or NetApp storage, including broad operating system, application, and VDI support. The Private Cloud Appliance consist of a Sun Rack II 1242 base rack with 2 dedicated Sun Server X52 controllers, an Oracle ZS3ES storage appliance, Oracle Virtual Networking, as well as Sun InfiniBand and Ethernet networking components, running Oracle Linux, Red Hat Linux, CentOS, Solaris x86, and Windows virtual machines. A single Private Cloud Appliance Rack can support up to 25 Sun Server X52 compute nodes. The Sun Server X52 compute nodes are sold separately. The Private Cloud Appliance supports Trusted Partitions. Trusted Partitions allow Oracle software to be licensed at the virtual machine level instead of the physical processor core level. Trusted Partitions allow customers to rightsize their Oracle software licensing with any Private Cloud Appliance configuration. Note: Trusted partitions require that each virtual machine using a trusted partition to be managed by Oracle Enterprise Manager. The Private Cloud Appliance utilizes both the Oracle VM for x86 server and management component. The server component is based on the open source Xen.org hypervisor, named Oracle VM server. The Xen hypervisor is a type 1 hypervisor that installs directly on hardware. Oracle makes subtle changes to the original Xen.org code that create a unique Xen distribution, which Oracle maintains and redistributes as Oracle VM server. Oracle VM server is designed to support the most demanding high I/O workloads like Oracle Databases. The default Oracle VM for x86 management component is a traditional Oracle WebLogic application, named Oracle VM Manager. Oracle VM Manager consists of two J2EE applications using a MySQL backend, with an Oracle Application Development Framework (ADF) administrative web portal. The Private Cloud Appliance uses the Oracle PCA Dashboard as the primary user interfaces, Oracle VM Manager, as well as Enterprise Manager for monitoring, and application management.



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Key Features and Specifications The Private Cloud Appliance is the only Oracle Engineered System with contemporary Converged Infrastructure Solution features, and broad Oracle software support.

Oracle and NonOracle Support Matrix The next table shows the Private Cloud Appliance Oracle and NonOracle workload, hardware and operating system support matrix.



Oracle Business

Intelligence

NonOracle Java

Applications

Oracle/Sun Hardware




The Private Cloud Appliance Virtualization Feature Matrix Oracle Software Product Certification and Support



Hard Partitions

Soft Partitions

Trusted Partitions

CapacityOnDemand

Key Features


Oracle Linux, Red Hat Enterprise linux, CentOS, Windows, and

Solaris x86[b]



Monitoring, Alerts and Notifications Available with Enterprise Manager

RBAC / ADIntegration Available with Enterprise Manager

CrossVendor Management


Self Service Portal Available with Enterprise Manager



Chargeback Available with Enterprise Manager



Live VM Migration


Power Management

Integrated HA (Restart VM)

VM Fault Tolerance

Storage Migration

Live VM Snapshots


Integrated Backup Available with additional Oracle software and hardware

VM Templates

Replication and Site Failover Available with ROAD for Oracle VM, and Oracle Site Guard with Oracle

Enterprise Manager

Virtual disk thin provisioning

Memory Dedupe


CPU Oversubscribe

I/O PassThrough (SRIOV)

Centralized Backup

Disaster Recovery Available with Oracle Site Guard with Oracle Enterprise Manager


Software Defined Storage (SDS)

Software Defined Network (SDN)

Logical Volume Manager

Virtual Switches

V2V

P2V

Compute Node Capabilities




Max CPUs Host 2x 18core (36 Cores)

Max vCPUs Host

Max Memory Host 256 GB

SAN Multipath

EMC PowerPath

Raw Device Mapping

Boot From SAN

Boot from USB


NIC Teaming

VLANs

PLANs


Jumbo Frames


Max vCPUs PVM: 256 PVHVM: 128[c]

Max Memory 246 GB

Max vDisk Size OCFS2: 64 TB NFS: 10 TB

Serial Ports

USB Support

Hot Add/Plug



Memory Page Sharing

Large Pages

OVF Support

Scripting API

[b] Supported Guest Operating Systems: Oracle Linux Release 7.x Oracle Linux Release 6.x Oracle Linux Release 5.x Oracle Linux Release 4.x Oracle Solaris 11



Oracle Solaris 10 Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.x Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.x Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.x Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4.x CentOS 6.x CentOS 5.x CentOS 4.x SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11.x Microsoft Windows Server 2012 R2 Microsoft Windows Server 2012 Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 Microsoft Windows Server 2008 SP2 Microsoft Windows Server 2003 R2 SP2 Microsoft Windows 8.1 Microsoft Windows 8 Microsoft Windows 7 SP1 Microsoft Windows Vista SP2 [c] Oracle VM supports two unique virtualization modes, paravirtualization mode (PVM mode) and hardware virtualization mode (HVM & PVHVM). Windows and Solaris x86 only support HVM and PVHVM modes, Linux supports PVM/HVM and PVHVM. Oracle VM Servers can support both PVM mode and HVM/PVHVM mode simultaneously on a single compute node.

Acquisition and Maintenance Costs The Private Cloud Appliance consists of a base rack with two control nodes, and one ZFS Storage appliance. Compute nodes are sold separately one node at a time. Note: The Private Cloud Appliance is sold by the Oracle hardware sales team, and partners.

Configuration Nodes List Price Oracle Premier Support for Systems (Annual)

Premier Support for Operating Systems (Annual)

Base Rack 2 $117,400.00 $14,088 $9,392

ZFS Storage System 1 $46,100.00 $2,136 $1,424

Virtual Compute Appliance X52 Server

1 $17,800.00 $2,136 $1,424



To use an Private Cloud Appliance, customers will need to purchase the following:

Oracle Premier Support Notes: Oracle Premier Support for Systems covers the servers and storage. Premier Support for Operating Systems covers Oracle Linux, Redhat Linux, CentOS, and Solaris.

Hardware installation and software configuration services are not included. Resource: http://www.oracle.com/us/corporate/pricing/exadatapricelist070598.pdf To run Oracle software on an Private Cloud Appliance, customers will need to purchase the following:

Oracle Database licenses Oracle WebLogic licenses Oracle Middleware licenses Oracle application licenses

The Competition Oracle positions the Private Cloud Appliance against market leading Converged Infrastructure solutions. Unlike the market leading Converged Infrastructure solutions that use widely adopted bestinclass compute, network, and storage technologies from industry leaders Cisco, EMC, NetApp, and VMware with broad application, and VDI support, the Private Cloud Appliance introduces a unique Oracle/Sun compute, network, storage, and virtualization stack with broad Oracle application and operating system support, without VDI. The Private Cloud Appliance is the ideal single Oracle hosting platform, but fails to compete against the market leading Converged Infrastructure solutions that target NonOracle environments. The “Oracle on Oracle” approach resulted in an Oracle centric Converged Infrastructure solution that is missing key NonOracle functionally. For example, the Private Cloud Appliance adds significant value to Oracle software deployments leveraging functionality from products across Oracle’s hardware, storage, application, and management stack. The aforementioned Oracle features add no value for NonOracle environments, thus limiting Private Cloud Appliance value to Oracle deployments.



http://www.oracle.com/us/corporate/pricing/exadata-pricelist-070598.pdf

Oracle Exadata At Oracle OpenWorld 2008, Oracle announced its entry into the Engineered Systems market with the HP Oracle Database Machine. The HP Oracle Database Machine was a combined HP compute, network, storage stack with Oracle Linux running Oracle’s 11g Database. Oracle marketed the HP Oracle Database Machine as: “Delivering 10x Faster Performance Than Current Oracle Data Warehouses Oracle Transforms Data Warehouse Deployments with Oracle® Exadata Storage Servers, the FirstEver Smart Storage Designed for Oracle Data Warehouses” The innovation that delivered 10x Faster Performance for Oracle Data Warehouses was the Exadata Storage Servers, described as “the FirstEver Smart Storage Designed for Oracle Data Warehouses”. One year later at At Oracle OpenWorld 2009, Oracle announced its intention to acquire Sun Microsystems, and introduced the Sun Oracle Database Machine (V2) remarketed as The First Database Machine for OLTP. The Sun acquisition ended the HP Oracle Database Machine, and ushered in the Oracle/Sun Engineered Systems erra. As of this writing Exadata X6 is the latest release, and the seventhgeneration Exadata system. Today Exadata is marketed as the highestperformance and mostavailable platform for the Oracle Database. Exadata consists a Sun Rack Units populated with Sun Database Servers, Sun Exadata Storage Servers, as well as Sun InfiniBand and Ethernet networking components, that run Oracle Linux physical or virtual deployments with Oracle Database workloads. The number of components in each Exadata system varies based on the hardware configuration; X62 in an 1/8, 1/4, 1/2 and full rack configurations, and the X68 in a 1/2 and full rack configurations. From 2013 through 2015 the number of Intel processor cores doubled, which increased the cost to license Oracle Database software on Exadata by 50%. To address the 50% cost increases Oracle introduced Capacity On Demand and Trusted Partitions. Capacityondemand (CoD) allows Exadata Database Server’s to be installed with a subset of its processor cores turned off so that the database software license costs could be reduced. The next list shows the CapacityOnDemand details for Exadata X6 systems: For Exadata X62 systems a minimum of 14 processor cores must be enabled per compute node.

For Exadata X62 Eighth Rack the minimum is 8 processor cores per compute node.



http://www.oracle.com/us/corporate/press/017557_EN


https://www.oracle.com/engineered-systems/exadata/index.html

For Exadata X68 a minimum of 56 processor cores must be enabled per compute node.

The Exadata X5 release was the first release to introduce virtual deployments using Oracle VM for x86. Virtual deployments brought Trusted Partitions. Trusted Partitions allow Oracle software to be licensed at the virtual machine level instead of the physical processor core level. CapacityOnDemand with Trusted Partitions allow customers to rightsize their Oracle software licensing with any Exadata configuration. Note: Trusted partitions require that each virtual machine using a trusted partition to be managed by Oracle Enterprise Manager. Exadata utilizes only the Oracle VM for x86 server component (the hypervisor), not Oracle VM Manager. Oracle VM for x86 consists of a server component, and a management component. The server component is based on the open source Xen.org hypervisor, named Oracle VM server. The Xen hypervisor is a type 1 hypervisor that installs directly on hardware. Oracle makes subtle changes to the original Xen.org code that create a unique Xen distribution, which Oracle maintains and redistributes as Oracle VM server. With Exadata Oracle VM for x86 servers and virtual machines are setup and managed from the command line, and monitored from Enterprise Manager. In Enterprise Manager Exadata Oracle VM for x86 servers and virtual machines are monitored using the Virtualization Infrastructure (VI) plugin, along with the Direct Monitoring of Xen Based Systems plugin. To be able to monitor Exadata Oracle VM for x86 servers and virtual machines the Virtualization Infrastructure (VI) plugin must be deployed, along with an Enterprise Manager agent on a physical or virtual machine setup with the Direct Monitoring of Xen Based Systems plugin. Oracle VM servers, and virtual machines are setup, and maintained from the command line using a handful of utilities such as the Oracle Exadata Deployment Assistant (OEDA), exachk, patchmgr, dbnodeupdate, as well as Xen native commands.

Key Features and Specifications Exadata does not have the virtualization feature matrix one might expect from a contemporary converged infrastructure offering. In fact, Exadata virtual deployments do not share the basic features from the Oracle VM for x86 software distribution. For example, Exadata Oracle VM servers, and virtual machines are setup and maintained from the command line. The following two tables show the Oracle, NonOracle, and virtualization feature matrices.



Oracle and NonOracle Support Matrix The next tables shows Exadata’s Oracle and NonOracle workload, hardware and operating system support matrix.

Product *Oracle Database


Oracle Business

Intelligence

NonOracle Workloads

Oracle/Sun Hardware


*Oracle Linux

[b]NonOracle Operating System Support


* Oracle Database Software (available separately): For database servers: Oracle Database 11g Release 2 Enterprise Edition and Oracle Database 12c Enterprise Edition. Oracle Database Options such as Oracle Real Application Clusters, Oracle Partitioning, Oracle Multitenant, Oracle Active Data Guard * Oracle Software (included): For database servers: Oracle Linux 6 Update 7 with the Unbreakable Enterprise Kernel 2. Zeroloss Zerocopy Datagram Protocol (ZDP) InfiniBand protocol used to communicate between the Exadata Storage Servers and the Oracle Database which is based on the Reliable Datagram Sockets (RDS) OpenFabrics Enterprise Distribution (OFED)

Exadata Virtual Deployment Feature Matrix. Oracle Software Product Certification and Support



Hard Partitions

Soft Partitions

Trusted Partitions

CapacityOnDemand

Key Features


Oracle Linux








http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/database/exadata/exadata-x6-2-ds-2968790.pdf

http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/database/exadata/exadata-x6-2-ds-2968790.pdf

Browser Based Management Available with Enterprise Manager





Live VM Migration


Power Management


VM Fault Tolerance

Storage Migration

Live VM Snapshots

Backup Integration API Available with the Enterprise Manager CLI


VM Templates

Replication and Site Failover Available with Oracle Site Guard with Oracle Enterprise Manager


Memory Dedupe


CPU Oversubscribe


Centralized Backup






Virtual Switches

V2V



P2V

Database Server Capabilities

X62 Max CPUs Host 2x 22core (44 Cores)

X68 Max CPUs Host 8x 18core (144 Cores)

Max vCPUs Host Not published

X62 Max Memory Host 256 expandable up to 786 GB

X68 Max Memory Host 2 TB expandable up to 6 TB

SAN Multipath

EMC PowerPath

Raw Device Mapping

Boot From SAN

Boot from USB


NIC Teaming

VLANs

PLANs


Jumbo Frames


Max vCPUs 128

Max Memory 2 TB

Max vDisk Size

Serial Ports

USB Support

Hot Add/Plug



Memory Page Sharing

Large Pages

OVF Support

Scripting API



Acquisition and Maintenance Costs Exadata is available in two variations: The X62 based on twosocket database servers and the X68 based on eightsocket database servers. The networking, storage servers and software are the same in both X62, and X68. Note: Exadata is sold by the technology and hardware sales teams. EF = Extreme Flash; HC = High Capacity Configuration Nodes/Storage

Cells List Price Oracle Premier

Support for Systems (Annual)


X62 ⅛ Rack Base Configuration (EF & HC)

2/3 $220,000 $26,400 $17,600

X62 ¼ Rack Base Configuration (EF & HC)

2/3 $330,000 $39,600 $26,400

X62 Half Rack Standard Configuration (EF & HC)

4/7 $602,000 $72,240 $48,160

X68 Half Rack Base Configuration (EF & HC)

2/3 $850,000 $102,000 $68,000

X62 Full Rack Standard Configuration (EF & HC)

8/14 $1,098,000 $131,760 $87,840

X68 Full Rack Standard Configuration (EF & HC)

2/14 $1,378,000 $165,360 $110,240

Notes: Oracle Premier Support for Systems covers the servers and storage. Premier Support for Operating Systems covers Oracle Linux and Solaris. Hardware installation and software configuration services are not included. Oracle Engineered System Advisory Service start at $47,500.00.

Resource: http://www.oracle.com/us/corporate/pricing/exadatapricelist070598.pdf




To use an Exadata systems, customers will need to purchase the following additional Oracle licenses:

Exadata storage server licenses Oracle Database licenses Oracle Premier Support

The Competition Exadata has no NonOracle competitors. Exadata competition comes from within Oracle, via Oracle VM for x86 and SPARC/Solaris, the Oracle Private Cloud Appliance, and the Oracle Database Appliance. Oracle VM for x86 Oracle VM for x86 has the broadest Oracle software support, the most comprehensive features, and is the only solution with 3rd party (Cisco, HP, Dell, EMC, NetApp, etc..) hardware, storage, and operating system support. With Oracle VM for x86 you can build your own high performance virtualization solution that supports not only Oracle database workloads, but also middleware, application, and business intelligence using the same compute, network and storage as your VMware systems. Oracle software on Oracle VM for x86 can be licensed at the virtual machine level as well as the physical processor level. Oracle marketing, and sales do not position Oracle VM for x86 against Exadata, but nevertheless it's a low cost high performance competitor that supports not only the Oracle database, but also middleware, application, and business intelligence with hard partition based licensing. Exadata introduces a unique x86 Oracle/Sun compute, network, storage, virtualization, operating system, and management stack stack into the data center. Exadata requires unique technical skills, and integration into existing IT Policies, Standards, and Procedures. Conversely Oracle VM for x86 software provides standardization across the Oracle applications stack using existing hardware and infrastructure. Oracle VM for SPARC/Solaris The number 1 workload on Solaris is the Oracle database, and Oracle is aggressively trying to maintain, and grow its Oracle/Solaris install base. Oracle customers on Solaris tend to stay on Solaris. Solaris and Oracle VM for SPARC have broad Oracle software support with hard partition based licensing, and are a cost effective high performance alternative to Exalogic. Exadata introduces a unique x86 Oracle/Sun compute, network, storage, virtualization, operating system, and management stack into the data center. Exadata requires unique technical skills, and integration into existing IT Policies, Standards, and Procedures. Conversely if you're a Solaris shop you already have



a high performance compute, network, storage, virtualization, and operating system stack that supports not only the Oracle database, but also middleware, applications, and business intelligence with hard partition based licensing. Oracle Private Cloud Appliance The Oracle Private Cloud Appliance (PCA) is Oracle' only Converged Infrastructure solution that is engineered and marketed for general purpose virtualization. The Oracle Private Cloud Appliance has broad Oracle software support, 3rd party operating system support, and trusted partitions that allow customers to license Oracle software via a virtual machine’s virtual CPUs regardless of the number of physical CPUs on the compute nodes or cluster. Oracle marketing, and sales do not position the Oracle Private Cloud Appliance against Exadata, but nevertheless it's a low cost high performance Exadata competitor with broad Oracle software support and Trusted Partitions. The Oracle Database Appliance As its name suggests, the Oracle Database Appliance was originally engineered for Oracle Database workloads, but now also supports Oracle middleware, and applications with Trusted Partitions. As an entry level solution, the Oracle Database Appliance is a cost effective alternative that competes with Exadata ⅛, and ¼ racks.



Oracle Exalogic At Oracle OpenWorld 2010, Oracle announced the latest addition to its Engineered System portfolio, Exalogic. Oracle marketed Exalogic as: “The World’s Only Integrated Middleware Machine Delivers Unprecedented Java Application Performance” As of this writing Exalogic X5 is the latest release, and the fourthgeneration Exalogic system. Today Oracle markets Exalogic as “World's Best Foundation for Applications” Oracle Exalogic is a preassembled hardware and software solution engineered to provide extreme performance, reliability, and scalability with Oracle and Java applications. Exalogic consist of a Sun Rack Units populated with Sun Server X52 compute nodes, an Oracle ZFS storage appliance, a Cisco Catalyst switch, as well as Sun InfiniBand and Ethernet networking components, running physical or virtual Oracle Linux or Solaris x86 operating systems with Oracle and Java applications. The number of components in each Exalogic system varies based on the hardware configuration; 1/8, 1/4, 1/2 and full rack configurations. From 2013 through 2015 the number of Intel processor cores doubled, which increased the cost to license Oracle software on Exalogic 50%. To address the 50% cost increases Oracle introduced Capacity On Demand and Trusted Partitions. Capacityondemand (CoD) allowed Exalogic compute nodes to be installed with a subset of its processor cores turned off so that the Oracle software license costs could be reduced. For an Exalogic X52 system, a minimum of 40% of cores per compute node must be enabled. An Exalogic X52 compute node has 2 Intel 18core processors, so a minimum of 14 cores per node (i.e. 7 cores in each processor) must be enabled. The initial Exalogic release only supported a Physical Configuration, which hindered its adoption. The second release included both Physical and Virtual Configurations using Oracle VM for x86. The Virtual Configuration brought the benefits of virtualization to Exalogic, and Trusted Partitions. Trusted Partitions allow Oracle software to be licensed at the virtual machine level instead of the physical processor core level. CapacityOnDemand with Trusted Partitions allow customers to rightsize their Oracle software licensing with any Exalogic configuration. Note: Trusted partitions require that each virtual machine using a trusted partition to be managed by Oracle Enterprise Manager. Exalogic Virtual Configurations, also referred to as Virtual Data Center (vDC) utilizes both the Oracle VM for x86 server and management component. The server component is based on the open source Xen.org hypervisor, named Oracle




https://www.oracle.com/engineered-systems/exalogic/index.html

VM server. The Xen hypervisor is a type 1 hypervisor that installs directly on hardware. Oracle makes subtle changes to the original Xen.org code that create a unique Xen distribution, which Oracle maintains and redistributes as Oracle VM server. Oracle VM server is designed to support the most demanding high I/O workloads like Oracle Databases. The default management component is a traditional Oracle WebLogic application, named Oracle VM Manager. Oracle VM Manager consists of two J2EE applications using a MySQL backend, with an Oracle Application Development Framework (ADF) administrative web portal. Exalogic does not utilize the Oracle VM Manager administrative portal, the Exalogic Control Stack uses Enterprise Manager Ops Center as the primary user interface, as well as Enterprise Manager for monitoring, and application management. The Exalogic Control Stack consists of Oracle VM Manager, Exalogic Control Browser User Interface (BUI), which is actually Enterprise Manager Ops Center, Enterprise Manager, as well as a hand full of command line utilities.

Key Features and Specifications Exalogic does not have the feature matrix one might expect from a contemporary converged infrastructure offering. The following two tables show the Oracle, NonOracle, and virtualization feature matrices.

Oracle and NonOracle Support Matrix The next tables show Exalogic’s Oracle and NonOracle workload, hardware and operating system support matrix.



Oracle Business

Intelligence

NonOracle Java

Applications

Oracle/Sun Hardware




Exalogic Virtual Configuration Feature Matrix. Oracle Software Product Certification and Support



Hard Partitions

Soft Partitions

Trusted Partitions



CapacityOnDemand

Key Features


Oracle Linux and Solaris x86











Live VM Migration


Power Management


VM Fault Tolerance

Storage Migration

Live VM Snapshots

Backup Integration API Available with the Enterprise Manager CLI


VM Templates



Memory Dedupe


CPU Oversubscribe




Centralized Backup






Virtual Switches

V2V

P2V



Max vCPUs Host Not published

Max Memory Host 256

SAN Multipath

EMC PowerPath

Raw Device Mapping

Boot From SAN

Boot from USB


NIC Teaming

VLANs

PLANs


Jumbo Frames


Max vCPUs Not published

Max Memory 246 GB

Max vDisk Size Not published

Serial Ports

USB Support

Hot Add/Plug





Memory Page Sharing

Large Pages

OVF Support

Scripting API

Acquisition and Maintenance Costs The cost of an Exalogic system varies based on the hardware configuration; 1/8, 1/4, 1/2 and full rack configurations. Note: Exalogic is sold by the Oracle middleware and hardware sales teams, and partners. Oracle Exalogic Pricing Configuration Nodes/Storage List Price Oracle

Premier Support for Systems (Annual)


Eighth Rack 4/1 $250,000.00 $30,000 $20,000

Quarter Rack 8/1 $370,000.00 $44,400 $29,600

Half Rack 16/1 $600,000.00 $72,000 $48,000

Full Rack 30/1 $1,035,000.00 $124,200 $82,800

Notes: Oracle Premier Support for Systems covers the servers and storage. Premier Support for Operating Systems covers Oracle Linux and Solaris. Hardware installation and software configuration services are not included. Oracle Engineered System Advisory Service start at $47,500.00.

Resource: http://www.oracle.com/us/corporate/pricing/exadatapricelist070598.pdf To use an Exalogic system, customers will need to purchase the following:

Exalogic Elastic Cloud Software Oracle WebLogic licenses Oracle Middleware licenses Oracle application licenses Oracle Premier Support




The Competition Exalogic has no NonOracle competitors. Exalogic competition comes from within Oracle, via Oracle VM for x86 and SPARC/Solaris, the Oracle Private Cloud Appliance, and the Oracle Database Appliance. Oracle VM for x86 Oracle VM for x86 has the broadest Oracle software support, the most comprehensive features, and is the only solution with 3rd party (Cisco, HP, Dell, EMC, NetApp, etc..) hardware, storage, and operating system support. With Oracle VM for x86 you can build your own high performance virtualization solution that supports not only Oracle database workloads, but also middleware, application, and business intelligence using the same compute, network and storage as your VMware systems. Oracle software on Oracle VM for x86 can be licensed at the virtual machine level as well as the physical processor level. Oracle marketing, and sales do not position Oracle VM for x86 against Exalogic, but nevertheless it's a low cost high performance competitor that supports not only Oracle middleware, and application, but also database and business intelligence with hard partition based licensing. Exalogic introduces a unique x86 Oracle/Sun compute, network, storage, virtualization, operating system, and management stack stack into the data center. Exalogic requires unique technical skills, and integration into existing IT Policies, Standards, and Procedures. Conversely Oracle VM for x86 software provides standardization across the Oracle applications stack using existing hardware and infrastructure. Oracle VM for SPARC/Solaris Oracle is aggressively trying to maintain, and grow its Oracle/Solaris install base. Oracle customers on Solaris tend to stay on Solaris. Solaris and Oracle VM for SPARC have broad Oracle software support with hard partition based licensing, and are a cost effective high performance alternative to Exalogic. Exalogic introduces a unique x86 Oracle/Sun compute, network, storage, virtualization, operating system, and management stack into the data center. Exalogic requires unique technical skills, and integration into existing IT Policies, Standards, and Procedures. Conversely if you're a Solaris shop you already have a high performance compute, network, storage, virtualization, and operating system stack that supports not only Oracle middleware, and application, but also database and business intelligence with hard partition based licensing. Oracle Private Cloud Appliance The Oracle Private Cloud Appliance (PCA) is Oracle' only Converged Infrastructure solution that is engineered and marketed for general purpose virtualization. The Oracle Private Cloud Appliance has broad Oracle software support, 3rd party



operating system support, and trusted partitions that allow customers to license Oracle software via a virtual machine’s virtual CPUs regardless of the number of physical CPUs on the compute nodes or cluster. Oracle marketing, and sales do not position the Oracle Private Cloud Appliance against Exalogic, but nevertheless it's a low cost high performance Exalogic competitor with broad Oracle software support and Trusted Partitions. The Oracle Database Appliance As its name suggests, the Oracle Database Appliance was originally engineered for Oracle Database workloads, but now also supports Oracle middleware, and applications with Trusted Partitions. As an entry level solution, the Oracle Database Appliance is a cost effective alternative that competes with Exalogic ⅛, and ¼ racks.



Exalytics On February 27, 2012, Oracle announced the latest addition to its Engineered System portfolio, Exalytics. Oracle markets Exalytics as: “First Engineered System for InMemory Decision Support, Online Analytical Processing, Forecasting and Planning”. One year later Oracle announced a bigger Solaris based Exalytics system, the T58. Oracle markets the Exalytics T58 as: “InMemory Engineered System Helps Organizations Answer Critical Business Questions with Unmatched Speed, Scale and Intelligence”. Oracle Exalytics is a preassembled hardware and software solution engineered to deliver high performance analytics, modeling and planning using the Oracle Business Intelligence Foundation Suite, and Oracle TimesTen InMemory Database. Exalytics has two models, the Intel based Exalytics X54, and the SPARC based Exalytics T58: 1. Exalytics X54 is single rackmountable x86 server with 73 CPU cores, 2 TB Ram, upgradable up to 3 TB, 7.2 TB of HDD storage, 4.8 TB of PCIe Flash, running physical or virtual Oracle Linux, with InfiniBand connectivity to Oracle Exadata, Oracle Exalogic and Oracle SuperCluster. a. Exalytics X54 is designed for Oracle Business Intelligence Foundation Suite for reporting, adhoc query, dashboards, scorecards and OLAP.

2. Exalytics T58 is single rackmountable SPARC server with 128 CPU cores, 4 TB Ram, 6.4 TB of PCIe Flash, 9.6 TB of raw disk capacity, running physical or virtual Solaris 11, with InfiniBand connectivity to Oracle Exadata, Oracle Exalogic and Oracle SuperCluster. a. Exalytics T58 is designed for Oracle Business Intelligence Foundation Suite for reporting, adhoc query, dashboards, scorecards and OLAP, Oracle TimesTen database & Oracle Essbase, and Oracle Hyperion Planning applications.

Both the Exalytics X54, and T58s can be deployed with High Availability by adding additional load balanced X54, and T58 nodes. The initial Exalytics release only supported a Physical Configuration. From 2013 through 2015 the number of Intel processor cores doubled, which increased the cost to license Oracle Business Intelligence Foundation on Exalytics 50%. To address the 50% cost increases Oracle introduced Exalytics virtual deployments. On x86 Exalytics uses Oracle VM for x86 with Capacity On Demand, and Trusted Partitions. On SPARC Exalytics uses Logical Domains (LDOMS) with hard partition based licensing. Hard partition based licensing, and Trusted Partitions allow Oracle software to be licensed at the virtual machine level instead of the physical processor core level. Without Trusted Partitions Oracle software must be licensed at the physical server’s or cluster’s processor core level, which is referred to as soft partitions.





Note: Hard partition based licensing predates Trusted Partitions, and today is available with Oracle VM for x86, as well as Engineered Systems using virtual deployments. Trusted partitions require that each virtual machine using a trusted partition to be managed by Oracle Enterprise Manager. Capacityondemand (CoD) allows Exalytics compute nodes to be installed with a subset of its processor cores turned off so that the Oracle software license costs could be reduced. Exalytics X54 utilizes both the Oracle VM for x86 server and management component. The server component is based on the open source Xen.org hypervisor, named Oracle VM server. The Xen hypervisor is a type 1 hypervisor that installs directly on hardware. Oracle makes subtle changes to the original Xen.org code that create a unique Xen distribution, which Oracle maintains and redistributes as Oracle VM server. Oracle VM server is designed to support the most demanding high I/O workloads like Oracle Databases. The default Oracle VM for x86 management component is a traditional Oracle WebLogic application, named Oracle VM Manager. Oracle VM Manager consists of two J2EE applications using a MySQL backend, with an Oracle Application Development Framework (ADF) administrative web portal. Exalytics X54 utilizes Oracle VM Manager as the primary user interface for virtual deployments, as well as Enterprise Manager for monitoring, and application management. Exalytics X54 does not have a management node, so Oracle VM Manager must be provisioned on an external physical or virtual machine on Oracle Linux or Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 or 6. Exalytics T58s utilizes Solaris Logical Domains (LDOMS) for virtualization configured from the command line, as well as Enterprise Manager for monitoring, and application management. Note: The Oracle Fusion Middleware Management plugin for Enterprise Manager can be used to discover, monitor and administer the status, performance, and health of Exalytics systems. The Oracle Fusion Middleware Management plugin is not bundled with Exalytics, and must be purchased separately.

Key Features and Specifications Exalytics does not have the virtualization feature matrix one might expect from a contemporary converged infrastructure offering. In fact, the Exalytics X54, and T58 do not share the basic features from the Oracle VM for x86 software distribution.



Oracle and NonOracle Support Matrix The next tables show the Exalytics X54 Oracle and NonOracle workload, hardware and operating system support matrix.



Oracle Business

Intelligence

NonOracle Java

Applications

Oracle/Sun Hardware




The next tables show the Exalytics T58 Oracle and NonOracle workload, hardware and operating system support matrix.



Oracle Business

Intelligence

NonOracle Java

Applications

Oracle/Sun Hardware




* Exalytics T58 uses Solaris 11 on SPARC hardware.

Exalytics X54 Virtualization Feature Matrix Oracle Software Product Certification and Support



Hard Partitions

Soft Partitions

Trusted Partitions

CapacityOnDemand

Key Features


Oracle Linux













Live VM Migration


Power Management


VM Fault Tolerance

Storage Migration

Live VM Snapshots



VM Templates

Replication and Site Failover Available with ROAD for Oracle VM, and Oracle Site Guard with Oracle

Enterprise Manager


Memory Dedupe


CPU Oversubscribe


Centralized Backup

Disaster Recovery Available with ROAD for Oracle VM, and Oracle Site Guard with Oracle

Enterprise Manager





Virtual Switches

V2V

P2V







Max vCPUs Host

Max Memory Host 256 GB

SAN Multipath

EMC PowerPath

Raw Device Mapping

Boot From SAN

Boot from USB


NIC Teaming

VLANs

PLANs


Jumbo Frames


Max vCPUs

Max Memory

Max vDisk Size

Serial Ports

USB Support

Hot Add/Plug



Memory Page Sharing

Large Pages

OVF Support

Scripting API

Exalytics T58 Virtualization Feature Matrix Oracle Software Product Certification and Support





Hard Partitions

Soft Partitions

Trusted Partitions

CapacityOnDemand

Key Features


Solaris 11











Live VM Migration


Power Management


VM Fault Tolerance

Storage Migration

Live VM Snapshots



VM Templates





Memory Dedupe


CPU Oversubscribe


Centralized Backup

Disaster Recovery Available Oracle Site Guard with Oracle Enterprise Manager





Virtual Switches

V2V

P2V


Max CPUs Host 128 CPU cores

Max vCPUs Host

Max Memory Host 4 TB

SAN Multipath

EMC PowerPath

Raw Device Mapping

Boot From SAN

Boot from USB

Virtual Disk Format

NIC Teaming

VLANs

PLANs


Jumbo Frames


Max vCPUs Not Published



Max Memory Not Published

Max vDisk Size Not Published

Serial Ports

USB Support

Hot Add/Plug



Memory Page Sharing

Large Pages

OVF Support

Scripting API

Acquisition and Maintenance Costs Exalytics has two models, the Intel based Exalytics X54, and the SPARC based Exalytics T58. Note: Exalytics is sold by the middleware, and hardware sales team, and partners.

Configuration Nodes List Price Oracle Premier Support for Systems (Annual)


Exalytics InMemory Machine X54

1 $175,000.00 $21,000.00 $14,000.00

Exalytics InMemory Machine T58

1 $330,000.00 $39,600.00 $26,400.00

Memory Expansion for Exalytics InMemory Machine X54

$41,000.00 $4,920.00 $3280.00

To use Exalytics, customers will need to purchase the following:

Oracle Premier Support Notes: Oracle Premier Support for Systems covers the servers and storage.



Premier Support for Operating Systems covers Oracle Linux, Redhat Linux, CentOS, and Solaris.

Hardware installation and software configuration services are not included. Resource: http://www.oracle.com/us/corporate/pricing/exadatapricelist070598.pdf To run Oracle software on Exalytics customers will need to purchase the following:

Oracle Business Intelligence Foundation Suite Licenses Database InMemory for Exalytics Licenses Database InMemory for Exalytics Licenses Exalytics InMemory Software Licenses Exalytics InMemory Software for Oracle Hyperion Financial Management Plus Licenses

The Competition Exalytics has no NonOracle competitors. Exalytics competition comes from within Oracle, via Oracle VM for x86 and SPARC/Solaris, the Oracle Private Cloud Appliance, and the Oracle Database Appliance. Oracle VM for x86 Oracle VM for x86 has the broadest Oracle software support, the most comprehensive features, and is the only solution with 3rd party (Cisco, HP, Dell, EMC, NetApp, etc..) hardware, storage, and operating system support. With Oracle VM for x86 you can build your own high performance virtualization solution that supports not only Oracle Business Intelligence, but also database, middleware, and application using the same compute, network and storage as your VMware systems. Oracle software on Oracle VM for x86 can be licensed at the virtual machine level as well as the physical processor level. Oracle marketing, and sales do not position Oracle VM for x86 against Exalytics, but nevertheless it's a low cost high performance competitor that supports not only Oracle Business Intelligence, but also database, middleware, and applications with hard partition based licensing. Exalytics introduces a unique x86 Oracle/Sun compute, network, storage, virtualization, operating system, and management stack stack into the data center. Exalytics requires unique technical skills, and integration into existing IT Policies, Standards, and Procedures. Conversely Oracle VM for x86 software provides standardization across the Oracle applications stack using existing hardware and infrastructure. Oracle VM for SPARC/Solaris




Oracle is aggressively trying to maintain, and grow its Oracle/Solaris install base. Oracle customers on Solaris tend to stay on Solaris. Solaris and Oracle VM for SPARC have broad Oracle software support with hard partition based licensing, and are a cost effective high performance alternative to Exalytics. Exalytics introduces a unique x86 Oracle/Sun compute, network, storage, virtualization, operating system, and management stack into the data center. Exalogic requires unique technical skills, and integration into existing IT Policies, Standards, and Procedures. Conversely if you're a Solaris shop you already have a high performance compute, network, storage, virtualization, and operating system stack that supports not only Oracle Business Intelligence, but also database, middleware, and applications with hard partition based licensing. Oracle Private Cloud Appliance The Oracle Private Cloud Appliance (PCA) is Oracle' only Converged Infrastructure solution that is engineered and marketed for general purpose virtualization. The Oracle Private Cloud Appliance has broad Oracle software support, 3rd party operating system support, and trusted partitions that allow customers to license Oracle software via a virtual machine’s virtual CPUs regardless of the number of physical CPUs on the compute nodes or cluster. Oracle marketing, and sales do not position the Oracle Private Cloud Appliance against Exalytics, but nevertheless it's a low cost high performance Exalytics competitor with broad Oracle software support and Trusted Partitions. The Oracle Database Appliance As its name suggests, the Oracle Database Appliance was originally engineered for Oracle Database workloads, but now also supports Oracle Business Intelligence, Oracle middleware, and applications with Trusted Partitions. As an entry level solution, the Oracle Database Appliance is a cost effective alternative that competes with Exalytics.



Oracle Database Appliance On September 22, 2011, Oracle announced the latest addition to its Engineered System portfolio, the Oracle Database Appliance (ODA). Oracle marketed the Oracle Database Appliance as: “Simple, Highly Reliable, Affordable Database System for Small/Midsize Enterprises and Departments” As its name suggests, the Oracle Database Appliance was originally engineered as for Oracle Database workloads, but now the Oracle Database Appliance X52 also supports Oracle middleware, and applications with Capacityondemand (CoD), and Trusted Partitions. The Oracle Database Appliance ships in three configurations. 1. Oracle Database Appliance X52 with 2 compute nodes, direct attached storage, using a physical or virtual deployment with Oracle Linux.

2. Oracle Database Appliance X62S (Small) is a single rackmountable server with local flash storage using a physical Oracle Linux deployment.

3. Oracle Database Appliance X62M (Medium) is a single rackmountable server with local flash storage using a physical Oracle Linux deployment.

The Oracle Database Appliance X52 is a fixed two node 6U rackmountable entry level system that consists of two Sun Server X52 compute nodes, with one storage shelf containing raw SAS storage, and solid state drives for database redo logs, and frequently accessed data running Oracle Linux physical or as virtual machines. The Oracle Database Appliance X62S, and X62M are single rackmountable servers with local flash storage using a physical Oracle Linux deployment. The initial Oracle Database Appliance release only supported the Oracle database using a Physical Configuration, which hindered its adoption. From 2013 through 2015 the number of Intel processor cores doubled, which increased the cost to license Oracle databases on the Oracle Database Appliance 50%. To address the 50% cost increases Oracle introduced virtual deployments using Oracle VM for x86 with hard partition based licensing, followed by Capacity On Demand,and Trusted Partitions. Hard partition based licensing, and Trusted Partitions allow Oracle software to be licensed at the virtual machine level instead of the physical processor core level. Without Trusted Partitions Oracle software must be licensed at the physical server’s or cluster’s processor core level, which is referred to as soft partitions. Note: Hard partition based licensing predates Trusted Partitions, and today is available with Oracle VM for x86, as well as Engineered Systems using virtual deployments. Trusted partitions require that each virtual machine using a trusted partition to be managed by Oracle Enterprise Manager.




Capacityondemand (CoD) allows Oracle Database Appliance compute nodes to be installed with a subset of its processor cores turned off so that the Oracle software license costs could be reduced. For an Oracle Database Appliance X52 compute node, one can enable and license 2, 4, 6, 8, 10, 12, 14, 16, 18, 20, 22, 24, 26, 28, 30, 32, 34, or 36 cores per server. The Oracle Database Appliance Virtualized Platform utilizes only the Oracle VM for x86 server component. The server component is based on the open source Xen.org hypervisor, named Oracle VM server. The Xen hypervisor is a type 1 hypervisor that installs directly on hardware. Oracle makes subtle changes to the original Xen.org code that create a unique Xen distribution, which Oracle maintains and redistributes as Oracle VM server. Oracle VM server is designed to support the most demanding high I/O workloads like Oracle Databases. The Oracle Database Appliance does not have a dedicated management node, so virtual machine management is done using the Oracle Appliance Manager commandline interface. The Oracle Database Appliance PlugIn for Enterprise Manager provides monitoring of Oracle Database Appliance databases, ILOM, Oracle VM servers, virtual machines, ASM, and the Oracle Appliance Manager. Virtual machines with the Enterprise Manager agent can be monitored and managed directly via Enterprise Manager. Note: The right to use the Oracle Database Appliance PlugIn for Enterprise Manager is bundled with Oracle Premier Support.

Key Features and Specifications The Oracle Database Appliance X52 does not have the virtualization feature matrix one might expect from a contemporary converged infrastructure offering. In fact, the Oracle Database Appliance X52 does not share the basic features from the Oracle VM for x86 software distribution. For example, Oracle Database Appliance virtual deployments are setup and maintained using a commandline interface. The following two tables show the Oracle, NonOracle, and virtualization feature matrices.

Oracle and NonOracle Support Matrix The next table shows Oracle Database Appliance X52 Oracle and NonOracle workload, hardware and operating system support matrix.



Oracle Business

Intelligence

NonOracle Workloads

Oracle/Sun Hardware






The next tables show Oracle Database Appliance X6S/X6M Oracle and NonOracle workload, hardware and operating system support matrix.



Oracle Business

Intelligence

NonOracle Workloads

Oracle/Sun Hardware




Oracle Database Appliance X52 Virtualization Feature Matrix Oracle Software Product Certification and Support



Hard Partitions

Soft Partitions

Trusted Partitions

CapacityOnDemand

Key Features


Oracle Linux











Live VM Migration


Power Management




VM Fault Tolerance

Storage Migration

Live VM Snapshots


Integrated Backup

VM Templates

Replication and Site Failover


Memory Dedupe


CPU Oversubscribe


Centralized Backup

Disaster Recovery





Virtual Switches

V2V

P2V

Oracle VM Server Capabilities


Max vCPUs Host

Max Memory Host 256 GB expandable up to 768 GB

SAN Multipath

EMC PowerPath

Raw Device Mapping

Boot From SAN

Boot from USB


NIC Teaming



VLANs

PLANs


Jumbo Frames


Max vCPUs No Published

Max Memory No Published

Max vDisk Size No Published

Serial Ports

USB Support

Hot Add/Plug



Memory Page Sharing

Large Pages

OVF Support

Scripting API

Acquisition and Maintenance Costs The Oracle Database Appliance ships in three configurations. 1. Oracle Database Appliance X52 with 2 compute nodes, direct attached storage, using a physical or virtual deployment with Oracle Linux.

2. Oracle Database Appliance X62S (Small) is a single rackmountable server with local flash storage using a physical Oracle Linux deployment.

3. Oracle Database Appliance X62M (Medium) is a single rackmountable server with local flash storage using a physical Oracle Linux deployment.

Configuration Nodes/Storage List Price Oracle

Premier Support for Systems (Annual)


Oracle Database Appliance X52

2 compute nodes with one storage shelf

$68,000.00 $8,160.00 $5,440.00

Storage Expansion

1 storage shelf $40,000.00 $4,800.00 $3,200.00



An add on for the Oracle Database Appliance X52

Oracle Database Appliance X62S

1 Server w local Storage

$18,000.00 $2,160.00 $1,440.00

Oracle Database Appliance X62M

1 Server w local Storage

$24,000.00 $2,880.00 $1,920.00

Oracle Database Software (Sold Separately) • Choice of Oracle Database software, depending on the desired level of availability: • Oracle Database 11g Enterprise Edition Release 2 and Oracle Database 12c Enterprise Edition • Oracle Real Application Clusters One Node • Oracle Real Application Clusters • Support for: • Oracle Database Enterprise Edition database options • Oracle Enterprise Manager Management Packs for Oracle Database Enterprise Edition To use an Oracle Database Appliance, customers will need to purchase the following:

Oracle Database licenses Oracle Application Licenses Oracle Middleware and WebLogic Licenses Oracle Premier Support

The Competition The Oracle Database Appliance is an entry level solution with no NonOracle competitors. The Oracle Database Appliance competition comes from within Oracle from Oracle VM for x86. Oracle VM for x86 Oracle VM for x86 has the broadest Oracle software support, the most comprehensive features, and is the only solution with 3rd party (Cisco, HP, Dell, EMC, NetApp, etc..) hardware, storage, and operating system support. With Oracle VM for x86 you can build your own single node, or multiple node high performance virtualization solution that supports not only Oracle database workloads, but also middleware, application, and business intelligence using the same compute, network and storage as your VMware systems. Oracle software on Oracle VM for x86 can be licensed at the virtual machine level as well as the physical processor level.



Oracle marketing, and sales do not position Oracle VM for x86 against the Oracle Database Appliance, but nevertheless it's a low cost high performance competitor that supports not only Oracle middleware, and application, but also database and business intelligence with hard partition based licensing. The Oracle Database Appliance introduces a unique x86 Oracle/Sun compute, network, storage, virtualization, operating system, and management stack stack into the data center. The Oracle Database Appliance requires unique technical skills, and integration into existing IT Policies, Standards, and Procedures. Conversely Oracle VM for x86 software provides standardization across the Oracle applications stack using existing hardware and infrastructure.



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